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Is Modern Orthodoxy Ready to Accept Rabbi Yitz Greenberg?

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, a significant yet controversial figure within Modern Orthodoxy, is examined in Steven Gotlib's review of Greenberg's latest work, "The Triumph of Life." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Rabbi Jonathan SacksHolocaustJewish TheologyTzimtzumModern OrthodoxyCovenantJewish ResponsibilityYitz GreenbergVoluntary CovenantNarrative Theology

Places mentioned

Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Greenberg grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn."
Riverdale, New York, United States
"He accepted the position of rabbi of the Riverdale Jewish Center, a synagogue in an area of New York that had only recently attracted Orthodox Jews."
Massachusetts, United States
"In 1959, while completing his Harvard University PhD in American history, he was appointed a full-time faculty member at Yeshiva College."
Israel
"The creation of the State of Israel, Greenberg writes, was the fundamental Jewish response to the devastating death blow inflicted by the Shoah."

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